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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don’t think it has to do with “a house” but happy people don’t need to seek happiness from outside themselves.

I don’t need to “escape my life” to ge happy.

So while I enjoy travel it’s just not better than my life.[/quote]

I agree with this. I feel very content and happy in my everyday life. Sometimes things get hectic during the week but we can always recalibrate on the weekends at home. I don't feel like I need to travel in order to relax or feel good. I really enjoy travel, but that's because it provides me with an opportunity to see friends, family, art, nature, architecture, etc. that I can't see at home. I'm happy to do that 4-5 times a year for varying lenghts of time, but I don't find it essential to my well being. More of a nice addition to an already lovely life.

Something I've noticed in DC is that people here can be very competitive about travel and about having been to lots of people or traveling extensively abroad. I'm sure there are people like this elsewhere I just find it more common here. Like I said, I enjoy travel and certainly foreign travel can be particularly rewarding because I feel fortunate to be able to go experience another country and culture. But I don't get the competitiveness or this idea that traveling a lot makes you a better person or more accomplished. It is largely a marker of privilege. That seems like such a weird thing to brag about in this day and age and I always feel uncomfortable when people do this, especially if in a group with some people who have not had that same opportunity to travel. It's just an odd flex.[/quote]

I love that everyone around us travels every single school break and summer. It makes the neighborhood and local bars and restaurants and parks so much more enjoyable. Everything feels relaxed.  Also- family time is better as there isn't constant pressure to do things with others, kids constantly out with friends.  It's chill time.[/quote]

PP here and YES. My DH and I learned a long time ago that Thanksgiving and Christmas/New Years are some of the best times to hang out in DC because no one is around. We go to museums, out to the movies, go to restaurants it's usually hard to get reservations to. Or just walk around and enjoy how quiet it is an how little traffic and noise there is. We do occasionally visit family for these holidays, but our preference is to visit them when traveling is not so hectic and annoying (I loathe flying over these holidays, and I'm a good flyer normally, I just hate that hectic holiday travel vibe). Pre-covid, our standard move would be to visit his family in early November, do Thanksgiving and Christmas in DC on our own, and then visit my family in January for skiing, and then his family again in February when they were in Florida so we could go to spring training. It was great! Also, I've found that we get much better calm, quality time with family if we visit them when it's not a holiday. There is less specific pressure to have a certain kind of experience and we can just enjoy company.

We also have friends who like to do things like London for Christmas or foreign travel for Thanksgiving, and even pre-Covid, that sounds like a waste to me. It just seems like trying to pack too much stuff into one trip. I'd rather to a cozy Christmas at home and visit London at a time when it's not so busy (and freezing). And Thanksgiving is such an inopportune time for travel, IMO. Lots of bad weather, tends to be a busy time of year at work and school as people start gearing up for the end of the year, plus everyone else is traveling. I'll never understand, but it certainly is nice that so many people do this so we can enjoy the quiet and calm![/quote]

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